Aims and principles of our nursery curriculum

• To offer equal opportunities for each child.
• To provide a safe, secure and stimulating environment and encourage children to be responsible for its care.
• To encourage and develop self-esteem, a sense of achievement and self-confidence.
• To enable children to express fears and anxieties and cope with difficult experiences.
• To foster in children a caring and respectful attitude towards peers and adults.
• To cater for the intellectual, spiritual, moral, physical, social and emotional needs of all.
• To provide opportunities for children to gain control over their bodies.
• To develop awareness of the needs of others.
• To promote communication skills.
• To encourage independence and a sense of responsibility.
• To develop spatial awareness.
• To develop manipulative skills and hand/eye
  co-ordination.
• To develop language and reasoning skills.
• To encourage learning through direct experience.
• To develop concentration and listening skills.
• To develop observation skills.
• To encourage creativity and imagination.
• To direct their own learning and make choices, and engage in problem solving.
• To develop mathematical and scientific concepts.
• To encourage children to widen their knowledge
  through the love of books.
• To offer a wide range of multi-cultural activities for
  each child.
• To enable parents/carers and people in the community
  to be actively involved within the nursery to help
  children in their learning.